Merchant's Privacy Statement

The City of Elk Grove is committed to protecting the privacy of the
individuals utilizing the City's website. However, personal
information submitted to the City's website may be subject to
disclosure pursuant to various California laws, including, but not
limited to, the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Civil Code
Section 1798 et seq.), the California Civil Discovery Act of 1986
(Code of Civil Procedure Sections 2016-2036), the California Public
Records Act (Government Code Section 6250 et seq.), Government Code
Sections 11015.5 and 11019.9, and with other applicable laws
pertaining to information privacy. The City may share such
information with other government agencies if: (1) the information
relates to that agency; (2) to protect the interests of others; (3)
to protect and defend the rights or property of the City of Elk
Grove; or (4) as otherwise provided by state or federal law.

The City’s website uses “cookies.” A cookie is a small
data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you
visit them. A cookie file can contain information, such as a User ID
that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. The only
personal information a cookie can contain is information that you
supply yourself. A cookie is only a text file and cannot read data
off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. You
can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. However,
they may be required to use some of the web applications on the
City's site.

During your visit to the City’s website, we will use
cookies to gather and store certain information about your visit.
This information does not identify you personally. The following
information may be automatically collected and stored about your
visit:

The Internet Protocol Address and domain name used;

The type of browser and operating system you used;

The date and time you visited this site;

The web pages, downloaded files or services you accessed at this site; and

The website you visited prior to coming to this website.

This information is collected for statistical and site
management purposes only. The City's website uses software programs
to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as
assessing what information is of most and least interest,
determining technical design specifications, and identifying system
performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this
service remains available to all users, the City's website employs
software programs to monitor network traffic to identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise
cause damage. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes. The City
of Elk Grove does not give, share, sell, rent or transfer any
personal information to a third party, unless we have your consent.

The City's website also contains links to other sites.
Please be aware that the City is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware
when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by
the City's website.

The City of Elk Grove does not collect any personal
information for commercial marketing. The City will not send you
unsolicited email regarding any commercial offers or advertisements
at any time.

Further, unless a particular web page on the City's
website indicates that encryption technology is being used, the user
should not assume that information uploaded through that web page
to the City's web server will be treated as confidential. If a user
submits information to the City's server through a web page
containing visible indicators of active encryption technology, the
City of Elk Grove will take all reasonable precautions to safeguard
the confidentiality of such information, but shall nevertheless not
be held liable for any injury caused by the disclosure of that
information, whether caused by security breach, accident,
inadvertence or any other act resulting in disclosure.

The City of Elk Grove attempts to maintain the highest
accuracy of content of its web site. Any errors or omissions should
be reported for investigation.

The City of Elk Grove makes no claims, promises, or
guarantees about the absolute accuracy, completeness or adequacy of
the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for
errors and omissions in the contents of this web site. No warranty
of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including, but not
limited to, the warranties of non-infringement of third party
rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the
contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other internet
resources.

Reference in this web site to any specific products,
processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm, or
corporation name is for the information and convenience of the
public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or
favoring by the City of Elk Grove, or its employees or agents.